America's first two political cartoons


	America's first two political cartoons

willhelm

9-27-2007 8:39 PM

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9-27-2007 9:03 PM

bignosemousie

These are great, thanks.

9-27-2007 11:35 PM

The REAL Napster

Ben Franklin was a real man among men.

9-28-2007 2:27 AM

willhelm

I agree.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1cb6499d-7ac5-41e4-97c7-57d8eeb0da35/31828F5A-4B44-4490-9379-D10E39EBCB4C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/snake.html" href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/snake.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.earlyamerica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/snake.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.earlyamerica.com/img/D423E2A7-BB12-488C-8DDF-4248BB146623" alt="Join or Die: One of the first political cartoons published in America" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/snake.html"><P>An early American political cartoon originally published in Benjamin Franklin's <A href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/past/past.html">Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/" href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.earlyamerica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/">
It's important to note that America's earliest cartoons were political in nature. The first cartoon appeared in Ben Franklin's newspaper <A href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/past/past.html">The Pennsylvania Gazette</A> on May 9, 1754. It appeared as part of an editorial by Franklin commenting on 'the present disunited state of the British Colonies.'</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/">
The woodcut drawing entitled 'Join or Die' pictures a divided snake in eight pieces representing as many colonial governments. The drawing was based on the popular superstition that a snake that had been cut in two would come to life if the pieces were joined before sunset.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/">
Another early cartoon from the 1700's appeared in the <A href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/past/past3.html">Massachusetts Centinel</A> on January 30, 1788. Entitled 'The Federal Superstructure,'</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/columns.html" href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/columns.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.earlyamerica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/columns.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.earlyamerica.com/img/49789351-FB5D-4D91-A0AA-8B4A5529DDAA" alt="Full-size view of the Federal Superstructure political cartoon" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/31828F5A-4B44-4490-9379-D10E39EBCB4C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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